Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:11:50 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Low end video card that won't crash server ... ? Message-ID: <467B3DF6.5080704@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <3C7F787C8D3D4F70B80BBA44@ganymede.hub.org> References: <3C7F787C8D3D4F70B80BBA44@ganymede.hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Unfortunately, it seems that the discussion on nvidia driver causing -current > to crash seems to have died off ... since I'm trying to work with a group on > getting wine actually working under -current, having X down right now is really > making things difficult, so I figure I'll go out and buy "yet another video > card", so that I can get some work done ... > > ATI vs nVidia? I used to think that nVidia was 'pro-OSS', but have recently > changed my mind on that based on, well, alot of things ... am I better off > going with an ATI video card instead, or are they about on teh same level as > far as being OSS friendly? And, if ATI, anything I should stay away from as > far as -current+xorg is concerned? > > - ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org > Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFGezzp4QvfyHIvDvMRAlOnAKCXuo2bpACqsNlsReu6Z6nlEn3BlACg3efA > HkroJfFfIH7zuAMTYbbXxTI= > =tZfP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Intel's still your best bet, with nVidia in second, and ATI in third. You aren't going to get proper 3D support unless you switch to Linux unfortunately :(.. -Garrett
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